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“A big love affair that began in a little bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Road.”
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

Anne Bancroft
Helene Hanff

Anthony Hopkins
Frank P. Doel

Judi Dench
Nora Doel

Jean De Baer
Maxine Stuart

Maurice Denham
George Martin

Eleanor David
Cecily Farr

Mercedes Ruehl
Kay

Daniel Gerroll
Brian

Wendy Morgan
Megan Wells

Ian McNeice
Bill Humphries
84 Charing Cross Road is a drama, romance film released in 1987 exploring themes of london, england, bookshop, based on play or musical, based on memoir or autobiography, correspondence, 1950s. Directed by David Hugh Jones, it stars Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench. When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
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